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Fore~gn General Agents for

Adelaide (S. A.)

. .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Bathurst (Gambia).

Bologna, Italy

.

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.

Cadiz

.

Calcutta

.

Cape Breton

.

Carthagena

.

Constantinople

Copenhagen

.

Cortu

...

OF'

HEALTH,

NEW

ROAD,

LONDON.

the Sale of MORISON'S PILLS,-the Vegetable Universal Medicine.

.

Mr.

J.

Stephens.

..

Mr. Jacob Meihnizen.

.

M. Rouquette.

...

M. D. Capriles, Jun.

.

J.

C.

French and Son.

.

J.

Montefiore and Co.

.

Mr. Charles Sola.

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. Mr.

Daniel Slight.

.

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V.

A. Guarmani.

.

N. Kornfield, Esq.

.

Mr.

J.

Bensnsan.

.

T.

Gardner, Esq.

.

Lieut.

J.

M'Kinnon.

.

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.

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.

Mr. C.

S.

Holm.

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Mr.

J.

W. Tavlor.

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(W.

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...

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acklinla

street.

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Jose Simon.

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Dr. Ambrosia C. Sauto, Callo del Media, NO.

13.

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.

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R.

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Carl ~e&an.

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Bishop's Auckland (New

Zealand)

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PARASOLS.

W.

&

J.

SANGSTER

BEG

to

submit to the Nobility and Gentry an entirely new PARASOL for this season, called the PATENT

SWISS PARASOL,

of

which the style and make is particularly new and elegant.

It will be sold retail, lined

and fringed, at

10s.

6d.

each, or unlined at

6s.

6d.

each.

W. and

J.

Sangster also respectfully solicit an inspec-

tion of

then extensive stock of FANCY SILK PARASOLS, suitable tor the carriage, promenade, garden, or

sea side.

140,

Regentstreet;

94,

Fleet.street;

10,

Royal Exchange;

40,

Cornhill.

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ADVERTISEMENTS.

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--

Perfect

freedom

from

Coughs

in

ten

minutes,

AND INSTANT RELIEF

AND

A RAPID CURE

OF

ASTHMA

AND

CONSUMPTION, COUGHS, COLDS,

AND

ALL DISORDERS

OF

THE

BREATH

AND

LUNGS,

ARE

INSURED

BY

DR.

LOCOCK'S

PULMONIC

WAFERS.

',,"

Small l~ooks, containing many hwzdreds of p?.opevZy authenticated (restimonials, may be

had from every Agent.

Cure of

29

years' ~sthmatic cough,

From

J.

D. Marshall, M.D., Lecturer to the Royal Insti.

tution,

Belfast, and Chemist

in

Ireland to her Majesty

Middleton, near Manchester.

1

O,IPC,,_

Sir,-I am now

44

years of age, and I have been

afflicted with an asthwdtic cough since

I

was a boy of

fifteen years of age. during that time

I

have resorted to

every means in my

iower to remove

it,

but in vain, until

last Sunday, when

I

sent for a small box of Dr. Locock's

Wafers.

I

have taken two boxes since, and from the

effects

they have had upon me

I

feel

no

douht of a speedy

recovery.

G.

STRINGER.

Witness,

M.

LYNCH,

Chemist, Market-street.

--

-

..

.

8,

High-street, Belfast, Sept. 2lst,

1847.

Gentlemen,-I have the gratification of stating that

from all

I have been enabled to observe of Dr. Locock's

Pulmonic Wafers, they have been of eminent service in

the alleviation

of

severe asthmatic coughs, pains in the

chest,

&c.

I have no doubt that when they hecomemore generally

known in the north of Ireland, they will be as highly

esteemed as they are in other parts of the kingdom.

J.

D. MARSHALL, M.D.

DR.

LOCOCK'S WAFERS

give instant relief, and

a

rapid cure of asthma, coilsuinptioll,

coughs,

colds, and all disorders of the breath and lungs.

TO SINGERS

AND

PUBLIC SPEAKERS

they are invaluable, as in a few hours

they remove all hoarseness, and wonderfully increase the power and flexibility of the voice.

They have a pleasant taste.

Price 1s. lpd., 2s. Sd., and 11s. per box.

AGENTS

:

DA

SILVA

&

CO.,

1, Bride-lane, Fleet-street, London.

Sold by

all Medicine Vendors.

PRICE,

Is.

lBd.,

2s.

gd., and

11s.

per box.

The

only

Medicine recommended to be

taken by Females

!

BFWAEE OF IMITATIONS

l

unprincipled

Persons Counterfeit this medi-

cine in the form of

PILLS,

&c. Purchasers

must therefore observe that none are Gen-

uine but "WAFERS

"

and that the words

I'

DR.

LOCOC$IS

WAFERS71

are in the Stamp outside each Box.

O~sERvE.-There

a& various Counterfeit Medicbes,

having words on

the

Stamp so

NEARLY

RESEMBLING

THESE,

as

to mislead

the

unwary. Purchasers

must

therefore st~ictly observe the above Caution.

Prepared only

by

the Proprietor's Agents,

DA

SILVA

&

CO.,

1,

Bride Lane, Fleet St, London.

Sold by all

MedicineVendors.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

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EAGLANDS newly invented INVISIBLE SPINE

SUPPORTERS will be

follnd well deserving the atten-

tion of the Medical Profession, and of persons suffering

under Spinal deformity and its consequences. As any

attempt at a description

must

needs fall

short of

giving

a correct idea of the plan itself,

,Mr. EAGLAND solici!s

an inspection. They are beautlfully simple and eml-

nently successful, quite imperceptible, and conceal the

deformity from the keenest observer.

Mr. E. has the

pleasure to add, that he

is

empowered

to

refer to ladies

of the highest respectability as to the remedial effects

produced by their use.

12,

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LONDON.

*,*

Hours Eleven till Six.

-

CHILDREN'S

FROCKS.

COATS,

AND

P

EAGLANDS newly invented INVISIBLE SPINE

SUPPORTERS will be

follnd well deserving the atten-

tion of the Medical Profession, and of persons suffering

under Spinal deformity and its consequences. As any

attempt at a description

must

needs fall

short of

giving

a correct idea of the plan itself,

,Mr. EAGLAND solici!s

an inspection. They are beautlfully simple and eml-

nently successful, quite imperceptible, and conceal the

deformity from the keenest observer.

Mr. E. has the

pleasure to add, that he

is

empowered

to

refer to ladies

of the highest respectability as to the remedial effects

produced by their use.

In all the New Materials and prevailing

Styles,

a

large portion of which areexpressly adapted for School

Wear, at SHEARMAN'S,

5,

FINSBURY PAVEMENT.

LONDON (between the Bank and Finsbury

Square).

SEVERAL HUNDREDS constantly on view from

the useful dress at

Is.

Ild., 2s. 6d., 3s. 6d

.

mddium,

6s.

6d.,

7s.

6d.,

10s.

Bd., 12s. 6d.;

handso&

158.

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6d.,

up to the richest goods mide in Silk

Velvets, Three, Four, and Five Guineas.

HOLLAND DRESSES

of all kinds. Pinafores,

10bd.

;

Frocks,

IS.

6d., Is. 9d.;

ditto, long sleeves,

2s.

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3s.

6d.;

Blouses,

3s. Ed.,

4s.

6d.,

5s.

6d.

MANTLES, PALETOTS, CLOAKS, JACKETS, and

SPENCERS, in great

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years

and upwards.

INFANTS' CLOAKS, HOODS, HATS, and BONNETS, LONG

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Robe Blankets, and Squares, Lawn and Cambric Night Caps, Open

and Round Shirts, Trimmed Nursery Baskets, and Bassinets, with

a

general Stock of BABY LINEN, together with every article usually

required

for

a YOUNG FAMILY: thus obviating the trouble and

inconvenience (so long complained of)

in

going to various shops when

JUVENILE CLOTHING is required.

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free on the receipt of a paid Letter.

DOUDNEYS

Watettprclclfer$,

EaBtt $l%atiers',

anD

GEaiIors'

TO

QUEEN

VICTORIA,

QUEEN

ADELAIDE,

H.R.H. Prince Albert, H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent,

KING LOUIS PHILIPPE,

And the ROYAL FAMILIES of ENGLAND and FRANCE,

The

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As to the character and recom-

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3

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Summer Trousers 10s. 6d. per pair: or

3

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The Queens Victoria and Adelaide,

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Registered Cloak

ina

variety of Waterproof,

~uaterials for Winter Wraps and the Promenade.--LL Every Lady should see these graceful)~ar-

ments."

(Tide

Morning

Post,

September

26th.)

They surpass all others for School Cloaks for the sons and daughters.

For Gentlemen.-The Roval Redstered Cloak.

as made for

H.IS.IL.

ImRISCE

.LLREI(T,

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tlie

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and

Savy,

atld

all

\\:lie

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romf<,r*i,

cjupled witli a trulvGentlemanly exterior. Tliese cloaks

are

pr~~riuunced

by

those wlio understnnJ tllc Iiiatter,

'6

The

~ro*b nrrlsihl& Garlucnt

ever

iutr.odnced,"

dt prices to suit nil custonlcrs irom the Supcrh down to tlle

useful Guinea Cloak.

The New Patent Belt

for Riding or general exercise, the only really effectual

protection against rupture; the support commencing at the bottom

edge

of the belt, and producing an uniform upward

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of six inches at pleasure, and never produce indigestlon

either in Ladies or Gentlemen. They are attached to Drawers with excellent effect.

The most eminent of the Faculty

are recommending these in preference to

all others.

LIVERIES.

Three Guineas the Plain Suit of Best Quality.

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CONSORT.

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Country Gentlemen

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or

4

Gentlemen unite, a Traveller

will wait upon them.

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ARCADE

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~~~l%i~-~stablished

1784.

PERSONAL HISTORY

AND

EXPERIENCE

OF

DAVID

COPPERFIELD

THE

YOUNGER.

CHAPTER

I.

I

AM

BORN.

WHETHER

I

shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether

that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

To begin my life with the beginning of my life,

I

record that

I

was born

(as

I

have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at

night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and

I

began

to cry, simultaneously.

In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by

the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken

a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of

our becoming personally acquainted, first, that

I

was destined to be

unlucky in life; and secondly, that

I

was privileged to see ghosts and

spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all

unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a

Friday night.

I

need say nothing here, on the first head, because nothing can show

better than my history whether that prediction was verified or falsified

by the result. On the second branch of the question,

I

will only

remark, that unless

I

ran through that part of my inheritance while

I

was still a baby,

I

have not come into it yet. But

I

do not at

all

complain of having been kept out of this property; and if anybody

else should be in the present enjoyment of it, he is heartily welcome to

keep it.

I

was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers,

at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were

short of money about that time, or were short of faith and preferred

cork-jackets,

I

don't know; all

I

know is, that there was but one

solitary bidding, and that was from an attorney connected with the

bill-

broking

business, who offered two pounds in cash, and the balance in

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THE

PERSONAL HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE

sherry, but declined to be guaranteed from drowning on any higher bargain.

Consequently the advertisement was withdrawn at a dead loss-for as to

sherry, my poor dear mother's own sherry was in the market then-and

ten years afterwards the caul was put up in a raffle down in our

part of the country, to fifty members at half-a-crown a head, the winner

to spend five shillings.

I

was present myself, and

I

remember to

have felt quite uncomfortable

and confused, at a part of myself being

disposed of in that way. The caul was won,

I

recollect, by an old lady

with a hand-basket, who, very reluctantly, produced from it the stipulated

five shillings, dl in halfpence, and twopence halfpenny short-as it took

an immense time and a great waste of arithmetic, to endeavour without

any effect to prove to her. It is a fact which will be long remembered

as remarkable down there, that she

was never drowned, but died tri-

umphantly in bed, at ninety-two.

I

have understood that

it

was,

to the last, her proudest boast, that she never had been on the

water in

her

lifc, except upon a bridge; and that over her tea (to which she was

extremely partial) she, to the last, expressed her indignation at the

impiety of mariners and others, who had the presumption to go

"meandering" about the world.

It

was in vain to represent to her

that

some conveniences, tea perhaps included, resulted from this ob-

jectionable practice. She always returned, with greater emphasis and

with an instinctive knowledge of the strength of her objection, "Let us

have no meandering."

Not to meander, myself, at present,

I

will go back to my birth.

I

was born at Blunderstone, in Suffolk, or "thereby," as they say in

Scotland.

I

was a postlumous child. My father's eyes had closed upon

the light of this world six months, when mine opened on it.

There is

something strange to me, even now, in the reflection that he never

saw

me

;

and something stranger yet in the shadowy remembrance that

I

have

of my first childish associations with his white grave-stone in the church-

yard, and of the indefinable compassion

I

used to feel for it lying out done

there in the dark night, when our little parlor was warm and bright with

fie and candle, and the doors of our house were-almost cruelly, it seemed

to me sometimes-bolted and locked against it.

An aunt of my father's, and consequently a great-aunt of mine, of

whom

I

shall have more to relate by and by, was the principal magnate

of our family. Miss Trotwood, or Miss Betsey, as my poor mother always

called her, when she sufficiently overcame her dread of this formidable

personage to mention her at all (which was seldom), had been married

to a husband younger than herself, who was very handsome, except in the

sense of the homely adage, "handsome is, that handsome doesH-for he

was strongly suspected of having beaten Miss Betsey, and even of having

once, on a disputed question of supplies, made some hasty but determined

arrangements to throw her out of a two pair of stairs' window. These

evidences of an incompatibility of temper induced Miss Betsey to pay

him off, and effect

a

separation by mutual consent. He went to India

with his capital, and there, according to a wild legend in our family, he

was once seen riding on an

elephant, in company with a Baboon; but

I

think it must have been

a

Baboo-or a Begum. Any how, from India

OP

DAVID

COPPERFIELD.

u

tidings of his death reached home, within ten years.

How they

affected

my aunt, nobody knew; for immediately upon the separation, she took

her maiden name again, bought a cottage in a hamlet on the sea-coast a

long way off, established herself there as a single woman with one servant,

and was understood to live secluded, ever afterwards, in an inflexible

retirement.

My father had once been a favorite of hers,

I

believe; but she was

mortally affronted by his marriage, on the ground that my mother was

"

a wax doll." She had never seen my mother, but she knew her to be

not yet twenty.

My father and Miss Betsey never met again. He was

double my mother's age when he married, and of but a delicate constitu-

tion. He died a year afterwards, and, as

I

have said, six months before

I

came into the world.

This was the state of matters, on the afternoon of, what

I

may be

excused for calling, that eventful and important Friday.

I

can make no

claim therefore to have known, at that time, how matters stood

;

or to have

any remembrance, founded on the evidence of my own senses, of what

follows.

My

mother was sitting by the fire, but poorly in health, and very low

in spirits, looking at it through her tears, and desponding heavily about

herself and the fatherless little stranger, who was already welcomed by some

grosses of prophetic pins, in a drawer up-stairs, to a world not at all excited

on the subject of his arrival; my mother,

I

say, was sitting by the fire,

that bright, windy March afternoon, very timid and sad, and very doubtful

of ever coming alive out of the trial that was before her, when, lifting her

eyes as she dried them, to the window opposite, she saw

a

strange lady

coming up the garden.

My mother had a sure foreboding at the second glance, that

it

was Miss

Betsey.

The setting sun was glowing on the strange lady, over the

garden-fence, and she came walking up to the door with a fell rigidity

of figure and composure of countenance that could have belonged to

nobody else.

When she reached the house, she gave another proof of her identity.

My father had often hinted that she seldom conducted herself like any

ordinary Christian; and now, instead of ringing the bell, she came and

looked in at that identical window, pressing the end of her nose against

the glass to that extent, that my poor dear mother used to say

it

became

perfectly flat and white in a moment.

She gave my mother such a turn, that

I

have always been convinced

I

am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been-born on a Friday.

My mother had left her chair

in

her agitation, and gone behind it in

the corner. Miss Betsey, looking round the room, slowly and enquiringly,

began on the other side, and carried her eyes on, like a Saracen's Head in

a Dutch clock, until they reached my mother. Then she made a frown

and a gesture to my mother, like one who was accustomed to be obeyed,

to come and open the door.

My mother went.

"

Mrs. David Copperfield,

I

think,"

said Miss Betsey

;

the emphasis

referring, perhaps, to my mother's mourning weeds, and her condition.

"

Yes," said my mother, faintly.

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THE PERSONAL HISTORY AND EXPRRIENCE

"

Miss Trotwood," said the visitor.

"You have heard of her,

I

dare

say

?"

My mother answered she had had that pleasure. And she had a dis-

agreeable consciousness of not appearing to imply that it had been

an

overpowering pleasure.

"

Now you see her," said Miss Betsey.

My mother bent her head, and

begged her to walk in.

They went into the parlor my mother had come from, the fire in the

best room on the other side of the passage not being lighted-not having

been lighted, indeed, since my father's funeral

;

and when they were both

seated, and Miss Betsey said nothing, my mother, after vainly trying to

restrain herself, began to cry.

"

Oh tut, tut, tut

!"

said Miss Betsey, in

a

hurry.

"

Don't do that!

Come, come

!"

My mother couldn't help it notwithstanding, so she cried until she had

had her cry out.

"

Take off your cap, child," said Miss Betsey,

"

and let me see you."

My mother was too much afraid of her to refuse compliance with this

odd request, if she had any disposition to do so. Therefore she did as

she was told, and did it with such nervous hands that her hair (which was

luxuriant and beautiful) fell all about her face.

"

Why, bless my heart

!

"

exclaimed Miss Betsey.

"

You are a very

Baby

!"

My mother was, no doubt, unusually youthful in appearance even

for her years; she hung her head, as if it were her fault, poor thing,

and said, sobbing, that indeed she was afraid she was but a childish

widow, and would be but a childish mother if she lived.

In a short

pause which ensued, she had a fancy that she felt Miss Betsey touch her

hair, and that with no ungentle hand; but, looking at her, in her timid

hope, she found that lady sitting with the skirt of her dress tucked up,

her

hands folded on one knee, and her feet upon the fender, frowning at

-

the fire.

<'

In the name of Heaven," said Miss Betsey, suddenly,

"

why Rookery

?

"

"DO you mean the house, ma'am?

"

asked my mother.

"Why Rookery

?

"

said Miss Betsey.

"

Cookery would have been

more to the purpose, if you had had any practical ideas of Life, either of

y

OU."

<<The name was Mr. Copperfield's choice," returned my mother.

"When he bought the house, he liked to think that there were rooks

about it."

The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall

old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor

Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one

another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds

of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about,

as

if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind,

some weather-beaten ragged old rooksy-nests, burdening their higher

branches, swung like wrecks upon a stormy sea.

"Where are the birds?

"

asked Miss Betsey.